What is heat?

This is the total energy of all the atoms that make up an object.

What is to carry or carrying?

Waves do this with energy.

What is the hydrosphere?

This sphere contains all the water in the planet including oceans, lakes and rivers.

What is the side with the closest contour lines?

A hill is seep on a topographic map. How can you tell which will be the least steep side?

Predictions are based off of past experiences and evidence, while random guesses are just random.

A prediction is different from a random guess in this way.

What is conduction?

Warming up an ice cube by holding it is an example of this kind of heat transfer.

What is transverse or compressional?

Waves either move up and down and are called, or side to side and are called.

Answers vary.

These are four examples of things that exist in the biosphere.

What is a plateau?

This landform is characterized by high elevation, but low relief.

What is an observation?

"I saw an orange flame about 2 inches tall and then heard a popping noise." This is an example of a...

What is convection?

When warm air mixes with cold air then this type of heat transfer is occurring.

What is moving objects, waves and heat flow?

These are the three main ways energy can be transfered.

What is the lithosphere?

All rocks are part of this earth system.

The base of the volcano is underneath water and the elevation is just the measurement of the part above sea level.

A volcano is 300 meters high, but only has an elevation of 100m. How is this happening?

What is an observation and prior knowledge?

When one infers, he/she might use information from these two main sources.

Heat is being transfered from the warmer object (your hand to the colder object (the bottle)

Describe the flow of heat from a hand to a frozen bottle.

What is a compressional wave?

Sound waves are an example of this kind of wave.

What are nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor or carbon dioxide?

These are two of the gasses that make up the Earth's atmosphere.

What are the prime meridian and the equator?

The point 0,0 is found at the intersection of these two lines on a globe.

Each different type of liquid is a manipulated variable because all other parts of the experiment are controlled and stay the same during testing except for the type of liquid.

An experiment was conducted where different types of liquids were frozen and then the time was measured for each liquid to evaporate. What is the manipulated variable and why is it called the manipulated variable in this case?

What is Buoyancy?

Hot air rises because of the principal of B......................

What is the sunlight?

This is an example of an electromagnetic wave.

Volcanoes are in the lithosphere and when they erupt, they bring gases up into the atmosphere.

Describe how the lithosphere is connected to the atmosphere.

(points for an accurate profile)

Draw a sketch of the profile of the topographic map placed on the projector.

A scientific theory is well tested, but can be proven wrong. A scientific law is rarely proven wrong and is accepted without being tested.

This is the difference between a scientific theory and a scientific law.